US History Terms Study Guide
Cahokia: located on the site of an ancient Native American city situated directly across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, Missouri / largest and most influential urban settlement in the Mississippian culture / the mound builders / advanced and indigenous cultures
Constantinople: trade routes in 1453 / eastern Roman Empire capital / right in the middle of a trade route from Europe to the middle east and Asia
Leif Erikson: Viking from Scandanavia / Norway / the first European to set foot in the New World, opening a new land rich with resources for the Vikings to explore
Zheng He: reached South America / court of emperor / sent emperor of China to Southeast Asia to Africa / see rest of the world / 7-9 voyages / spread China’s wealth and for diplomacy
Columbian Exchange: to America from Europe (wheat, rye, pigs, cattle, horses, measles, typhus, influenza, malaria, smallpox) / to Europe from America (corn, potatoes, tomatoes, beans, squash, peppers, pumpkin, cacao, syphilis
Christopher Columbus: took 4 voyages and first landed in Hispaniola / gets a holiday because he sustained contact / killed 90% of Native Americas because of disease and not a good administrator and was under arrest / credited for discovering the new world
Hernan Cortez: Spanish conquistador who takes down Aztec empire / mining for gold
Hernando de Soto: “the captain” -> native americans -> indian empires -> gold, treasure, fame, and power / Mississippi / Attack Indians -> Soto died and thrown in water by leader of Mosscoso
Pigmentocracy: racial diversity / like skin color – rate / type of social hierarchy which is based on human skin color
Cabeza de Vaca: Spanish explorer who was stranded in NA territory; saw life of Mariames and Yguaces like annihilate daughters, great thieves, liars, and drunkards, merry people, has customs like no sleep with wife after preggo, indian warfare put house in thickest forest and dig ditches for women to hide, Indians took care of him, strict
Constantinople: trade routes in 1453 / eastern Roman Empire capital / right in the middle of a trade route from Europe to the middle east and Asia
Leif Erikson: Viking from Scandanavia / Norway / the first European to set foot in the New World, opening a new land rich with resources for the Vikings to explore
Zheng He: reached South America / court of emperor / sent emperor of China to Southeast Asia to Africa / see rest of the world / 7-9 voyages / spread China’s wealth and for diplomacy
Columbian Exchange: to America from Europe (wheat, rye, pigs, cattle, horses, measles, typhus, influenza, malaria, smallpox) / to Europe from America (corn, potatoes, tomatoes, beans, squash, peppers, pumpkin, cacao, syphilis
Christopher Columbus: took 4 voyages and first landed in Hispaniola / gets a holiday because he sustained contact / killed 90% of Native Americas because of disease and not a good administrator and was under arrest / credited for discovering the new world
Hernan Cortez: Spanish conquistador who takes down Aztec empire / mining for gold
Hernando de Soto: “the captain” -> native americans -> indian empires -> gold, treasure, fame, and power / Mississippi / Attack Indians -> Soto died and thrown in water by leader of Mosscoso
Pigmentocracy: racial diversity / like skin color – rate / type of social hierarchy which is based on human skin color
Cabeza de Vaca: Spanish explorer who was stranded in NA territory; saw life of Mariames and Yguaces like annihilate daughters, great thieves, liars, and drunkards, merry people, has customs like no sleep with wife after preggo, indian warfare put house in thickest forest and dig ditches for women to hide, Indians took care of him, strict